Jesse Walker | August 20, 2010
Mermaid (Osamu Tezuka, 1964):
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Fist of Etiquette|8.20.10 @ 5:32PM|#
I liked this better the first time I saw it, when it was the movie Splash.
|8.20.10 @ 5:33PM|#
THREADJACK.
Remember that pinup calendar with the female Czech politicians. I got one. Just sayin...
Apologetic California|8.20.10 @ 5:36PM|#
Percussions?
Anonymous|8.20.10 @ 6:10PM|#
Fish tits...
|8.20.10 @ 6:24PM|#
Ten second sound bite synopsis? Don't have 8+ minutes to spend watching this.
Szasz|8.20.10 @ 6:25PM|#
"In my opinion, Donaldson did not have a constitutional right to treatment, but he did have a constitutional right to his delusions".
SIV |8.20.10 @ 6:41PM|#
Mermaids at the top of the blog
scroll down for some torture.
(you might need to leave the first page)
Robert|8.20.10 @ 6:42PM|#
Was I the only one who was LOL throughout the re-education passage?
Anonymous|8.20.10 @ 6:44PM|#
I liked the tickler.
Jeffersonian|8.20.10 @ 8:42PM|#
Stanley Kubrick did that part much better.
SxCx|8.20.10 @ 7:34PM|#
If Obama had his way...!
Some dude|8.20.10 @ 8:43PM|#
There... are... FOUR... lights!
|8.20.10 @ 8:45PM|#
Sooo...
A crazy teenager sees Mermaids his parents and the state try to treat his delusion but ultimately it is ineffective and he drowns himself...
Also is there a cultural thing here?
Do daydreams and insanity have a closer meaning in japan then in western cultures?
Yonemoto|8.20.10 @ 10:10PM|#
Japanese people have no soul, so no.
orrible racist|8.20.10 @ 11:20PM|#
Was is it with Japanese artists and seafood fucking?
Cyto|8.21.10 @ 12:45AM|#
Kinda reminded me of my public school experience.
|8.21.10 @ 12:56AM|#
Debussy rocks.
Inkblots|8.21.10 @ 1:23AM|#
Simply beautiful.
Adonisus|8.21.10 @ 12:54PM|#
Ah, Osamu Tezuka.
Cartoonist, graphic novelist, animator, painter, science fiction writer, actor, and sculptor extrordinaire.
His experimental shorts are particularly good. He made quite a few in his career.
Kolohe|8.21.10 @ 2:29PM|#
That was one of the longer United Airlines commercials I have seen.